Format Question

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george

Hi All,
I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
Cheers
 
Hi All,
I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
Cheers
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Boot off your Win2K CD.
 
george said:
I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
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Well, since you want to toss the data anyway, why not toss the partition
using fdisk, then recreate it, then format.
 
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